A baptismal name for a boy
Nikolay
5 saints bore this name
Other days it is celebrated
Saints named Nikolay
New Martyr Nikolay OrnatskyMay 31Junior doctor of the Kronstadt infantry regiment, killed in October 1918 and canonized in 2000.- Hieromartyr Nikolay YefimovMay 19Priest ordained in 1923, who served in the village of Ternovaya, was arrested on 25 December 1937 and died in 1938.
- Hieromartyr Nikolay RyurikovJune 5Priest born in 1884 into a priest's family, who died in 1943 in a camp; since 2006 in the Synaxis of the New Martyrs.
- Venerable Nikolay TrubinUkrainian Orthodox ascetic, born in 1950 and died in 1997 at Kropyvnytskyi.
- Hieromartyr Nikolay RozanovJune 21A priest who suffered martyrdom in 1938; glorified among the New Martyrs and Confessors of the Russian Church.
Questions
The name day of Nikolay is May 31, the feast of New Martyr Nikolay Ornatsky. It is also kept on May 19, June 5, June 21.
The Sinaxarion archive holds 5 saints named Nikolay, with their lives and icons.
Yes. Nikolay is the name of a saint of the Orthodox Church, so the child will have New Martyr Nikolay Ornatsky as patron.